compere

How To Use compere In A Sentence

• • Royal wedding news now, and wasn't it kind of Alton Towers to give the Duchess of Fergie the chance to compere its wedding coverage on April 29, especially as pointedly, and poignantly, she hasn't been invited to the much awaited love-in? Hugh Muir's diary
• The bride immediately swapped her L-plate for a pair of glasses, revealed she was a lawyer, and pointed out the contract wasn't legally binding – before downing yet another sambuca and shrieking for the compere to take his top off. Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh
• ‘Sexy and, at the same time, very, very wearable, all in pastels,’ the voice of the compère, appeared to croon.
• The compère was inexperienced, the DJ unforgivably took it upon himself to heckle the support acts and the sparse audience was less than receptive.
• He compèred for the corporation and the bands submitted to interviews with him and made the right deprecatory noises.
• We sit down for dinner and a compere tells us how it will all work. Times, Sunday Times
• I did package shows there with friends - three acts and a compere for a fiver. Times, Sunday Times
• In those days it was held that the god-mother of a child stood to it in the relation of a second mother: hence originated the term of 'commere' and 'compere,' which Joan gave the d'Epinals. Joan of Arc
• We sit down for dinner and a compere tells us how it will all work. Times, Sunday Times
• The glittering ceremony was hosted by comedian Billy Crystal, who has now compèred eight times, and who cracked plenty of jokes.